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The committee expressed special concern for the yet unknown effects of acid rain on the microorganisms in soil that break down natural wastes into carbon and nitrogen. Committee Chairman William A. Neirenberg--director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography--called this "a worrisome thing...that you're not going to...
By blurring the distinction between competing car lines, GM was violating a cardinal rule of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., the management genius who rescued the company from near bankruptcy in the early 1920s and ran it until 1956. In 1921, Sloan recommended that GM rationalize its products by manufacturing "a...
In a bar across the street from the paper, they struck up a wake, the last in a round of such affairs. They had twice given themselves a slide show of their faces at work, to a recording of Nat King Cole singing, "Pretend you're happy when you...
Scripps-Howard is the Cincinnati-based chain that owned the Press-Scimitar, and it made no secret that it shut the paper to pour its resources into its other Memphis paper, the Commercial Appeal, and to make more money. With the cessation of the Press-Scimitar, the Commercial Appeal raised...
Even so, if the past few years have been mortally difficult for second papers-only 29 cities still have fully independent, competing dailies-they have been almost as perilous for the second wire service. U.P.I.'s longtime owners, the Scripps and Hearst newspaper chains, were anxious to sell; they...